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by flowfighter

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I am looking for software to automate normal maintenance tasks and for network monitoring. What do you guys use?

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by Former member

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

by flowfighter

Tasks like defrag, disk cleanup, clear temp internet files, etc. Would like to be able to streamline typical preventative maintenance tasks.

by flowfighter

Looking at starting a small IT company on the side and would like to be able to minimize the hands on tasks as much as possible.

by Former member

1). Regcure:
http://www.regcure.com/
This will do all the things dealing with temp files, and you can tell the software at what time and when to start.

2). Diskeeper:
http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp
This will deal with your defrag of drives, also if your are having a server then you can get the server addition also. Also you can tell it to come on when and at what time.

3). Ccleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
This is a free version. But i do not know if it can be configured to run on a/in timer frame. But you can download it and give it a try.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by rob miners

Here are a couple of ways to keep your PC tidy and help to speed it up. Just create them and add them to the desktop as a Shortcut. Run deltmp and then run def. You can even use TaskSchedular to run them.

This Batch file will empty your PC of Temp Files. Make sure that you copy all the information as if you get it wrong you will end up with a PC with a lot of empty folders.

Copy and paste between the ******* to notepad and save the file to the Root directory C:\> as deltmp.cmd

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:USERPROFILE

c:

cd \

cd %USERPROFILE%\"Local Settings"\"Temporary Internet Files"

del *.* /s /q

rmdir . /s /q

goto PREFETCH

:PREFETCH

cd \

cd %WINDIR%\PREFETCH

del *.* /s /q

goto INIT

:INIT

@echo off

setlocal

set cStatflag=0

C:

:USERTEMP

cd \

cd %TEMP%

:REMOVE

del *.* /s /q

rmdir . /s /q

:CHECK

if %cStatflag%==1 goto FINISH

:WINTEMP

cd \

cd %WINDIR%\TEMP

set cStatflag=1

goto REMOVE

:FINISH

endlocal

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This is a Command line version of the Defrag Utility follow the above steps and save it as def.cmd, you will have to create a text file and save it to the root directory as well it will be named DrvLtr.txt and it will list the Drives that you want to Defragment. EG: C: and press Enter D: and press Enter it is one line for each Drive.

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REM chkdsk and defrag automation

for /F "eol= tokens=1 delims=( " %%i in (DrvLtr.txt) do set DrvLtr=%%i& call :dsKchk

:dsKchk

If %DrvLtr% == end goto :eof

chkdsk %DrvLtr%

If not errorlevel 3 goto :defrag

If not exist %DrvLtr%\winnt If not exist %DrvLtr%\windows If not exist %DrvLtr%\pagefile.sys goto :dskchkon

:dskchkoff

cd\

%DrvLtr%

echo Y chkdsk /F /R

goto :defrag

:dskchkon

chkdsk %DrvLtr% /F /R

:defrag

cd\

%DrvLtr%

defrag %DrvLtr% -b

defrag %DrvLtr%

:EOF

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It will probably run through twice the first time that you use it.

PsExec v1.94
By Mark Russinovich
Published: January 4, 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

The batch files can be copied to the workstations with PsExec and could be scheduled from the File Server to run at the specified time.

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